Volker Schlöndorff

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name = Volker Schlöndorff
birthdate = birth date and age|1939|3|31
location = Wiesbaden, Germany
yearsactive = 1966 – present
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awards = Cannes Film Festival
Won: Palme d'Or
1979 "The Tin Drum"
academyawards = Won: Best Foreign Language Film
1979 "The Tin Drum"
spouse = Margarethe von Trotta

Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31, 1939) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker.

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Tin Drum" (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Volker Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.

He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991.

Awards

*2004 Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award [http://www.bayern.de/Anlage19170/PreistraegerdesBayerischenFilmpreises-Pierrot.pdf]

Filmography

*2006 : "Strike"
*2004 : "The Ninth Day" ("Der Neunte Tag")
*2002 : "" (segment "The Enlightenment")
*2000 : "The Legend of Rita" ("Die Stille nach dem Schuß")
*1998 : "Palmetto" ("Dumme sterben nicht aus")
*1996 : "The Ogre" ("Der Unhold")
*1992 : "The Michael Nyman Songbook"
*1992 : "Billy How Did You Do It?" ("Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht")
*1991 : "The Voyager" ("Homo Faber")
*1990 : "The Handmaid's Tale" ("Die Geschichte der Dienerin")
*1985 : "Death of a Salesman" ("Der Tod eines Handlungsreisenden")
*1984 : "Un Amour de Swann"
*1983 : "War and Peace" ("Krieg und Frieden")
*1981 : "The Circle of Deceit"
*1980 : "The Candidate" ("Der Kandidat")
*1979 : "The Tin Drum" ("Die Blechtrommel")
*1976 : "Coup de Grâce" ("Der Fangschuß")
*1975 : "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" ("Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann")
*1971: "Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach" ("Der Plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach")
*1967: "A Degree of Murder" ("Mord und Totschlag")
*1966 : "Young Törless" ("Der Junge Törless")

ee also

*Cinema of Germany

External links

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* [http://www.egs.edu/faculty/volkerschlondorff.html Volker Schlöndorff Faculty Website European Graduate School]
* [http://www.gerardcourant.com/projection.php?t=c&film=572 Volker Schlöndorff's Cinématon - A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant]

Persondata
NAME = Schlöndorff, Volker
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = German filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH = March 31, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH = Wiesbaden, Germany
DATE OF DEATH =
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